STUDY OBJECTIVE Children's proxy reports on indicators of their parents' socioeconomic status (SES) have either been used uncritically or dismissed as invalid. This paper examines the validity of ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The authors investigated whether patients who have survived an acute episode of peptic ulcer bleeding (PUB) have an excess long term all cause mortality compared with the general ...

Background An emerging body of evidence underscores the often-intensive perinatal healthcare needs of women with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). However, population-based research ...

Background Hypertension in midlife has been associated with an increased risk of all-cause dementia, but the evidence is unclear on the strength of the association and short-term studies may be ...

1 Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University and Centre for Health and Society, University of Melbourne, Australia 2 Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University ...

Correspondence to Professor Sun Ha Jee, Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion and Institute of Health Promotion, Graduate School of Public Health, Yonsei University, Seoul, the Republic of ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim of the study is to explain the persistent but puzzling positive correlation of physicians per capita and mortality rates, when income is controlled, which has been reported ...

Introduction With a rapidly ageing society, geriatric depression is emerging as important public health concern. The untreated depressed elderly patients have significant clinical and social ...